Container stock report message

This message is available for formal trial for at least six months from the date of approval by UN/ECE/TRADE/WP.4.

Organisations are invited to trial this message. Comments on the results from the trial should be forwarded to their Rapporteur's Team Secretariat as soon as they are available. Based on the results of the trials, a UNSM may be issued.

The segments, composite data elements, data elements and codes for use in the trial of this message are contained in the Draft directory. However, this information may differ from that in the Standard directory (UNTDID), even for material having the same identifying tags.

This specification provides the definition of the Container stock report message (COEDOR) to be used in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between trading partners involved in administration, commerce and transport.

A message to report containers that are in stock of the sending party (i.e., a terminal, depot or container freight station).

This message is part of a total set of container-related messages. These messages serve to facilitate the intermodal handling of containers by streamlining the information exchange. The business scenario for the container messages is clarified in a separate document, called: 'Guide to the scenario of EDIFACT container messages'.

In the context of the 'Guide to the scenario of EDIFACT container messages' (as referred to at the start of section 1) the following guidelines, rules and functionality apply to this Container stock report message:

The message contents can be uniquely identified by a combination of the following data elements:

The message can be sent on a regular basis; e.g. once or twice per day.

One message may contain several containers identified by their prefix and serial number.

For each container its stack position can be given, including the date and time of its checking by the stock reporter, and the date/time on which the container was delivered at the stock keeper's place.

Also the transport status (= export, import, transhipment or continental), full/empty indication and the condition (damage) of the container can be specified.

Depending on the transport status of the container additional information on the container can be given, such as carrier agent's reference, (seagoing) vessel, (sea) voyage number/indication and port of discharge.

A segment to indicate the date and time on which the particular container has been ascertained as being in stock (stock check date/time), and to indicate when the container has been delivered at the stock keeper (actual equipment positioning date/time).